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MCC Spring Graduation Exercises to be Held May 13

(Bradenton, Fla., April 26, 2005) - Manatee
Community College (MCC) Spring 2005 graduation exercises will
be held at 7 p.m., Friday, May 13, at the Manatee Convention
and Civic Center, Palmetto. Approximately 241, out of a total
of 533 graduating students, will participate in the
ceremony.

MCC President Dr. Sarah Pappas will offer opening remarks
and confer degrees. The guest speaker is Diane McFarlin,
publisher of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune newspaper,
the largest newspaper in the New York Times Regional
Newspaper Group. A fourth-generation Floridian, she has served
as managing and executive editor of the newspaper and director
of broadcast for the 24-hour cable news channel SNN-6. She is a
past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and
the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. The student speaker
is graduating sophomore Matthew Fournier, a 20-year-old honors
student who served as a Student Ambassador and tutor to fellow
students. He will pursue a degree in microbiology at the
University of Florida and then a degree in dentistry.